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Barvinkove fire, 24 July 2025 Барвінківський район · Barvinkove

Out · last detection 30 Jul 2025, 10:35 UTC

The fire started on 24 July 2025 in Barvinkove, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 7 days. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 115 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 460th largest in Kharkiv Oblast since 2016 (of 558 with a page). Number 1169 in Ukraine in 2025, of 1358.

The power measured by the satellite is low (9.8 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

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Burnt area
115ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
7days
24 Jul 2025 – 30 Jul 2025
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
24 Jul
2025
Heat detections
5
in a single hotspot: 10 MW
Danger at start
39
Very high · FWI index
Average daily power
20MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 24 Jul30 Jul
30 Jul 2025

How it evolved, day by day

24 Jul 2025 · 19 MW · 2 30 Jul 2025 · 20 MW · 3
24 Jul 30 Jul

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

37°high
50km/h · peak gust
15%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 14.7 mm on 3 Aug.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

  1. Barvinkove Барвінківський район 20,290 inhabitants · 10.9 km from the centre where it started
    115 ha reached on 24 Jul
    0.1 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

What burned

  • Other natural land53 %
  • Mixed forest42 %
  • Agricultural areas5.1 %

Land cover inside the perimeter as reported by Copernicus EFFIS (outside the Corine Land Cover area).

The weather day by day

ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
24 Jul 29.5 °C 32 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
25 Jul 31.8 °C 26 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
26 Jul 34.1 °C 25 % 31 km/h 0.1 mm High 30
27 Jul 32.2 °C 32 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
28 Jul 32.8 °C 17 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
29 Jul 34.9 °C 15 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 66
30 Jul 37.2 °C 16 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Very extreme 78
31 Jul after 27.8 °C 50 % 44 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 49
1 Aug after 25.3 °C 48 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
2 Aug after 29.9 °C 29 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
3 Aug after 25.1 °C 58 % 38 km/h 14.7 mm Very low 0

Its twins: fires that started in the same weather

It started with an FWI of 39.4, a minimum humidity of 32% and rain the day before. Fires in the area that started in weather like this since 2016: 62.

FWI at the start 39.4
Minimum humidity 32 %
Days without rain 0
this fire chosen twins rest of the area
Almost identicalSimilar

Outlines of the closest twins

Polohy fire, July 2024
187 ha 3 days FWI 38.4 Min. humidity 32 % 148 km away, in 2024

First rain (1 mm or more) after it ended: none in the following ten days.

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What happened to them

3 days
median duration
156 ha
median area
0 %
went past 1,000 ha
3.6 mm
rain at the end (median; 43 of 62 had it)

It burned an area similar to its twins (115 ha against a median of 156 ha) and lasted 7 days, against 3 days.

In 19 of 62, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 3.6 mm.

This is a bank of analogues: it shows what usually happens, not what will happen. With fewer than 15 twins we give no figures. How we calculate it

How it ended

14.7 mmfirst rain
3 Aug4 days after it ended
50km/h · max. gust

It was considered over on 30 Jul, and on 3 Aug 14.7 mm fell. We do not know whether the rain or the firefighters put it out. Twins with rain when they ended: 43 of 62, with a median of 3.6 mm.

Weather on this page: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

How a twin is chosen

  • Same area: fires that have already ended, less than 250 km from this one, since 2016.
  • Same start: we compare the FWI on the first day, the minimum humidity that day and the run of days without rain before it. The slider sets how much they may differ.
  • Only pages with final weather data (ERA5 reanalysis) calculated in the same way as this fire’s; agricultural and grass burns and pages with data under review are left out.
  • Fires burning at the same time as this one (a week before or after) are left out: they share the same spell of weather and do not count as a precedent.
  • They are sorted by similarity, and the outlines of the first five are drawn.

How we calculate it

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 17 Jul 2025
After · 6 Aug 2025

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 26 July 2025 the air beside the fire reached 13 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak13 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1016 µg/m³
Optical depth0.57
25 Jul27 Jul29 Jul31 Jul
Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

Detections table · 5Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
Date and timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Barvinkove fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 24 July 2025 to 30 July 2025 (7 days). The perimeter dates it from 27 July 2025 to 28 July 2025.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 115 hectares (1.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Barvinkove (115 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The fire started in Barvinkove and came within 10.9 km of its centre. That is the distance from the perimeter, or the nearest hotspot, to the point marking the centre; it does not mean it entered the houses.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 37.2 °C, humidity dropped to 15 % and gusts hit 50 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 78, class Very extreme.
Where does this data come from?
From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Ukraine (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.
How did the fires that started in similar weather in this area end?
Fires less than 250 km away that started since 2016 with a similar FWI, humidity and dry spell: 62. Their median duration was 3 days and their median area 156 ha; 0 % went past 1,000 ha. In 19 of 62, not even 1 mm fell in the ten days after the end: they went out without rain. In the rest, the first rainy day brought a median of 3.6 mm.

Where to verify it

A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.

Emergency number: 101 · 112 · Emergency number and official warnings

Satellite cross-check

History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

No changes since 24 October 2026.

RSS Changes to this page With cross-checks and a citable version

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: EFFIS (Copernicus), mapped on satellite imagery.
  • Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 27 July 2025 to 28 July 2025. 5 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • We have not matched this page with any official record.
  • Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.

How we build fire pages: methodology

Where this data comes from

The perimeter and land cover come from the Copernicus European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), measured on MODIS and Sentinel-2 imagery and published under CC BY 4.0. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM2 (Public Domain). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ slightly from each country’s official figure.